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Pop's BridgeThe Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can't be built. But Robert's father is building it. He's a skywalker a brave, high climbing ironworker. Robert is convinced his pop has the most important job on the crew . . . until a frightening event makes him see that it takes an entire team to accomplish the impossible. When it was completed in 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was hailed as an international marvel.
The Golden Gate Bridge. The impossible bridge, some call it. They say it can't be built. But Robert's father is building it. He's a skywalker--a brave, high-climbing ironworker. Robert is convinced his pop has the most important job on the crew . . . until a frightening event makes him see that it takes an entire team to accomplish the impossible. When it was completed in 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge was hailed as an international marvel. Eve Bunting's riveting story salutes the ingenuity and courage of every person who helped raise this majestic American icon.Includes an author's note about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 05/01/2006
ISBN: 9780152047733
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 11.72h x 9.32w x 0.67d
Award: Parents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007) - Winner
Award: Black-Eyed Susan Award - Nominee
Award: Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award - Nominee
Award: California Young Reader Medal - Nominee
Review Citations: Kirkus Review - Children 04/15/2006 pg. 402
Booklist 04/15/2006 pg. 50
School Library Journal 06/01/2006 pg. 108
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2006 pg. 294 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2006 pg. 7 - Recommended
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 105506 / Pop's Bridge
Reading Level: 3.4 / Interest Level: Lower Grade / Point Value: 0.5
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★★★★★ 5
One of the most original and moving books of poems I've ever read
Format: Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky is practically a legend, at this point, and deservedly so. This is his second book of poems, and proves well worth the wait. The individual poems are beautiful and strange; together, they comprise a kind of allegory for our times, and manage to be both somehow light-of-heart, somehow luminous, and also seriously profound. I would recommend this book even to those who don't usually read poetry, because it's beyond poetry, truly.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Beautifully written and good quality book
Format: Paperback, Format: Paperback
I received the book earlier than the estimated date. I love this poem collection of Ilya Kaminsky. Although it describes the social unrest in an unknown place (and unfamiliar to me), his poems are beautifully written with strong images and music.
THe paper quality and the book are so new and lovely. I couldn't think that it is used (as it stated).
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Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2021
★★★★★ 4
Life: A challenge in many ways in all cultures
Format: Kindle
I heard Ilya Kaminsky read his poems at Chautauqua this past summer. Over powering and dynamic to hear his voice speak his words... about his life experiences need to be remembered.
A must read and if possible with the audio.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2019
★★★★★ 5
A brilliant poetic narrative whose lines leap off the pages which turn themselves.
Format: Paperback
When you get to the end, you wonder how Kaminsky worked his wondrous magic, how it's possible to think and write poetry like that. The poem is a story about Vasenka, a mythical town somewhere in the Ukraine, occupied by the Soviet army during an unspecified period of time. It is an allegory of the cruelty of occupation, the futility of the resistance of a few, and the deafness of the silent majority, a deafness that courageously resists the occupation and a deafness that hardens the heart and ignores the evil surrounding them. It could have happened anywhere anytime. The occupiers could have been Nazis, Ottoman Turks, American, English, or Spanish. The poetry is piercingly sharp, visionary, breathless and the metaphors are the likes of which you've never heard before, lines like “the sound we do not hear lifts the gulls off the water,” “Our hearing doesn't weaken, but something silent in us strengthens,” or “In these avenues, deafness is our only barricade.” This is drop-dead beautiful poetry.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019
★★★★★ 5
Haunting Humanity lurks in war’s reactions.
Format: Kindle
The poem moves efficiently through the myriad experiences that result from deadly conflict with a nameless and menacing enemy.
I kept thinking I was reading a rendering of Kafka with the haunting glimpses of the horror of permanent victim hood.
Now I must study the Deaf Republic and hope for understanding.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2025
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